ICSE Class 10 Results: Kolkata Students Excel with 99.18% Pass Percentage
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) declared the ICSE (Class 10) board results on Thursday, with Kolkata schools reporting impressive performances. The overall pass percentage for the ICSE exams this year stood at 99.18%, a slight increase of 0.04% from last year. In Bengal, 44,410 students appeared for the examination, out of which 43,897 successfully passed.
Top Scorers in Kolkata
Twelve students from various schools in Kolkata and its suburbs achieved a perfect score of 499 out of 500. The list includes Irene Mitra from Calcutta Girls' High School, Nandini Seal from Modern High, Aarav Goenka and Shreyansh Das from The Heritage School, Arhon Guha Majumder and Saurangi Banerjee from Garden High, Arkadeep Banerjee from Ram Mohan Mission School, Aranya Ghosh from Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education, Noirrhit Basu from St Augustine's Day School, Barrackpore, Nipabithi Dutta from St Xavier's School, East Burdwan, Raunak Kumar from St Michael's School, and Dibyendu Pramanik from Auxilium Convent School, Siliguri.
School-Wise Performance
Several schools recorded outstanding results. At Don Bosco, Park Circus, out of 199 students who appeared, 106 scored above 90%. Calcutta Girls' High School saw 124 out of 126 students achieve above 90%. At La Martiniere for Girls, 108 out of 208 students scored above 90%, while Ram Mohan Mission School had 90 out of 207 candidates securing 90% and above. South City International School reported 36 out of 101 students scoring above 90%, and Julien Day School, Ganganagar, had 40 out of 123 students in that bracket.
Principals Highlight Shift in Learning Approach
School principals pointed out that a large number of students scored very high this time, attributing it to the changing pattern of questions that emphasizes application and critical thinking over rote learning. Sujoy Biswas, principal of Ram Mohan Mission School, said, "Our students have done extremely well. They are getting accustomed to the new question pattern and moving away from rote learning."
Fr Roshan Tirkey, principal of St Xavier's Collegiate School, added, "We focused on presentation and taught them to add something unique to their answers, not to rote learn. We taught them to write to-the-point answers, which is important in the changed pattern as evaluators look for certain phrases, not quantity but quality."
Rodney Borneo, principal of St Augustine's Day School, Shyamnagar, said, "Students who practised scored well." Ambica Mehra, principal of DPS Newtown, remarked, "The new question pattern, with its focus on application and conceptual clarity, played to our students' strengths. These results reaffirm our commitment to nurturing true understanding and academic excellence."
